In Search of the Trojan War

Author: Michael Wood
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520215993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
For 3,000 years, tales of Troy and its heroes - Achilles and Hector, Paris and the legendary beauty Helen - have fired the human imagination. With In Search of the Trojan War, Michael Wood brings vividly to life the legend and lore of the Heroic Age in an archaeological adventure that sifts through the myths and speculation to provide a privileged view of the riches and the reality of ancient Troy. This edition includes a new preface, a new final chapter, and an addendum to the bibliography that take account of dramatic new developments in the search for Troy with the rediscovery, in Moscow, of the so-called Jewels of Helen and the re-excavation of the site of Troy which began in 1988 and is yielding new evidence about the historical city.

In Search Of The Trojan War

Author: Michael Wood
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448141451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
For thousands of years we have been enthralled by tales of Troy and its heroes. Achilles and Hector, Paris and the famed beauty Helen remain some of the most enduring figures in art and literature. But did these titanic characters really walk the earth? Was there ever an actual siege of Troy? In this extensively revised edition, historian Michael Wood takes account of the latest dramatic developments in the search for Troy. His wide-ranging study of the complex archaeological, literary and historical records has been brought up-to-date. Detailing the rediscovery in Moscow of the so-called jewels of Helen and the re-excavation of the site of Troy begun in 1988, which continues to yield new evidence about the historical city, In Search of the Trojan War takes a fresh look at some of the most excited discoveries in archaeology. A dazzling and exhaustive analysis. Washington Post This beautifully illustrated book vividly evokes themes that are central to our civilizations quest for its past. The New York Times Book Review

In Search of the Trojan War

Author: Michael Wood
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0563522658
Category : Bronze age
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Michael Wood has made a wide-ranging study of the complex archaeological, literary and historical records which make up the tale of Troy. He has visited all the key sites and his researches have led him to a new conclusion about the city.

The Trojan War Museum: and Other Stories

Author: Ayse Papatya Bucak
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324002980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description
Short-listed for the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection “As profound as it is lyrical. The stories are music.” —Marcela Davison Avilés, NPR In Ayse Papatya Bucak’s dreamlike narratives, dead girls recount gas explosions and a chess-playing automaton falls in love. A student stops eating, and no one knows whether her act is personal or political. A Turkish wrestler, a hero in the East, is seen as a brute in the West. And in the masterful title story, the Greek god Apollo confronts his personal history to memorialize, and make sense of, generations of war. A joy and a provocation, Bucak’s stories confront the nature of memory with humor and myth, performance and authenticity.

Tales of the Trojan War: Usborne Classics Retold

Author: Kamini Khanduri
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1409585654
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149

Book Description
"This means war!" yells King Menelaus when he finds out that his wife has sailed away in the dead of night with a Trojan prince. Follow the epic struggle of the great Greek heroes as they seek their revenge on Troy with an army of 100,000 men. Full of action, adventure and suspense, these fast-moving stories have been retold for today's readers in a way that is guaranteed to bring the Greek myths to life.

The Trojan War

Author: Barry Strauss
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743264428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Based on the latest archeological research and written by a leading expert on ancient military history, the true story of the most famous battle in history is every bit as compelling as Homer's epic account, and confirms many of its details.

The Iliad

Author: Homer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description

The Trojan War

Author: Olivia E. Coolidge
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618154289
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
Retells legends of the heroes of the Trojan War, which began with Paris of Troy's abduction of Helen, wife of Menelaus, lord of Greece.

The Trojan War and the Adventures of Odysseus

Author: Padraic Colum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Here is the perfect introduction to The Iliad and The Odyssey, two of the cornerstones of Western literature. All of the glories of Homer's world--from the mysterious Wooden Horse to Helen, whose beauty launched a thousand ships, to the fearsome one-eyed Cyclops--are here, refashioned into one seamless tale of adventure by three-time Newbery Honor winner Padraic Colum. Beautifully enhanced by Barry Moser's twelve bold, evocative color plates, this handsome book will stir the imagination of young and old alike.

The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle

Author: Jonathan S. Burgess
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801874815
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
Although the Iliad and Odyssey narrate only relatively small portions of the Trojan War and its aftermath, for centuries these works have overshadowed other, more comprehensive narratives of the conflict, particularly the poems known as the Epic Cycle. In The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle, Jonathan Burgess challenges Homer's authority on the war's history and the legends surrounding it, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger, often overlooked context of the entire body of Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age. He traces the development and transmission of the Cyclic poems in ancient Greek culture, comparing them to later Homeric poems and finding that they were far more influential than has previously been thought.